Cannes Review : Louis Garrel Comedy ‘The Innocent’
26.05.2022 - 14:23
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Actor/director Louis Garrel’s heist film The Innocent (L’ Innocent), is flat out entertaining. It hits all of the familiar beats of a romantic dark comedy, but its the witty, sarcastic dialogue that carries the entire establishing arc all the way to the end.
Sylvie (Anouk Grinberg) is a drama teacher in a prison and she falls in love with one of her students, Michel (Roschdy Zem) who is locked up for participating in a heist. The two get married at the prison where her son Abel (Louis Garrel) is in attendance. Abel is not a smart man but an honest one and he wants to protect is mother. He is noticeably uncomfortable because his mother is marrying an ex-con, but he grins and bears it. He has a right to be upset as he constantly wonders if Michel is still a criminal? Or is he someone who wants to make an honest living.
Abel starts letting his guard down when his step-father and mother open a business together, but when he suddenly finds a gun in Michel’s pocket, his suspicions are reignited. His best friend and co-worker Clemence (Noemie Merlant) discuss his findings, but she suggest for him to pipe down with the paranoia. He also tells Sylvie about it and she doesn’t believe him either. Abel takes matters into his own hands and starts tracking Michel around Paris until he discovers something that may or may not confirm his suspicions.
The Innocent is the first movie of Cannes 2022 to give me that belly aching, knee slapping laughter that was desperately needed at at the festival. Sure, the film is traditional in the comedic sense but it excludes the cinematic pretentiousness included in most Cannes content.
The inventiveness of the script lies in the idea that the art of acting, and how it’s a needed skill to craft the
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